A feminist-oriented broadcast news service founded by radio journalists Katherine
Davenport and Frieda Werden in 1986, Women's International News Gathering Service
(WINGS) is an all-woman independent radio production company based out of Vancouver,
Canada. WINGS produces and distributes radio news programs that can be heard on
approximately 100 radio stations throughout the world, on audiocassettes and the
internet.

Correspondence, printed materials, newsletters, newspapers, notes, financial records,
diaries, literary productions, photographs and audiotapes comprise the Women's
International News Gathering Service (WINGS) Archive and Audio Tape Collection,
1954, 1978-1999, documenting the development and work of WINGS and the personal
lives of its co-founders, Katherine Davenport and Frieda Werden. International in
scope, this collection reflects many feminist, lesbian, and radical political and
social causes. Audiotapes of recorded interviews produced over the past twenty years
include women’s conferences, Women’s News Hour on ACTV
(Austin), and Feminist International Radio Endeavor (FIRE). A portion of this
collection consists of Katherine Davenport’s personal papers.